Showing posts with label US Navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Navy. Show all posts
Friday, February 16, 2024

Recission of Covid Mandate Did Not Totally Moot Navy SEALs' RFRA Challenge

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 In U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26 v. Austin ,  (ND TX, Feb. 14, 2024), a Texas federal district court held preliminarily that the rescission of the m...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Statute of Limitations Not Tolled on Navy Chaplains' Claims

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In In re: Naval Chaplaincy ,  (D DC, Aug. 23, 2023), the D.C. federal district court held that plaintiffs have not shown that the running of...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

5th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments in Navy SEAL's Suit Seeking COVID Vaccine Exemption

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The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday heard oral arguments in U.S. Navy SEAL's 1-26 v. Biden,  (Docket No. 22-10077, argued 2/...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Pentagon Asks Supreme Court To Stay Injunction Obtained By Navy SEALS Who Object To Vaccines

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 Yesterday in Austin v. U.S. Navy Seals 1-26  the Pentagon filed with the Supreme Court an Application ( full text ) for a stay while appeal...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

5th Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Vaccine Mandate For Navy Seals With Religious Objections

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In U.S. Navy Seals 1-26 v. Biden ,  (5th Cir., Feb. 28, 2022), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant the Navy a partial sta...
Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Navy Enjoined From Applying Vaccine Mandate To Plaintiff Religious Objectors

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 In U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26 v. Biden ,  (ND TX, Jan. 3, 2022), a Texas federal district court issued a preliminary injunction barring the U.S. ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Navy's Limits On Religious Exemptions To Vaccine Mandate Are Challenged

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New litigation over limited religious exemptions to COVID vaccine mandates continues to arise.  This time, 35 members of the U.S. Navy filed...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Cert. Denied In COVID, Chaplaincy and Abortion Cases

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued its lengthy (66-page) first-day-of-the-Term Order List  denying review in several hundred cases. It incl...
Thursday, September 02, 2021

Navy Chaplain's Claim Dismissed On Res Judicata Grounds

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In Lancaster v. Secretary of the Navy ,  (ED VA, Aug. 30, 2021), a Virginia federal district court dismissed on res judicata  grounds a suit...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Jewish Sailor Gets Temporary Reprieve From Order To Shave Beard

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Suit was filed yesterday in the D.C. federal district court by a Jewish sailor who was ordered to shave his beard which he maintains for rel...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Another Chapter In Challenge To Navy Chaplain Selection Procedures

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In In re Navy Chaplaincy ,  (DC Cir., Nov. 6, 2020), the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the latest decision in a controversy that has ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Navy Chaplains Given One More Chance To Refile Discrimination Claims

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Arnold v. Secretary of the Navy ,  (D DC, April 21, 2020) is the latest installment in long-running litigation against the U.S. Navy by a gr...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Navy Liberalizes Policy On Religious Head Coverings

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The U.S. Navy, in a memo dated March 16 ( full text ), became the third branch of the armed forces to liberalize its policy on accommodation...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Nuclear Protesters' RFRA Defense Rejected

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In United States v. Kelly ,  (SD GA, Aug. 26, 2019), a Georgia federal district court refused to dismiss indictments against seven Catholics...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Non-Liturgical Protestant Navy Chaplains Refile In Long-Running Discrimination Litigation

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Last year, a D.C. federal district court dismissed a long-running lawsuit brought by  non-liturgical Protestant Navy chaplains alleging disc...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Protestant Navy Chaplains Lose Discrimination Lawsuit

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In In re Navy Chaplaincy ,  (D DC, Aug. 30, 2018), a D.C. federal district court granted summary judgment for the U.S..Navy in a long-runnin...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Court Orders More Briefs On RFRA Defense By Peace Protesters

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In an Order last week in United States v. Kelly , 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138195 , (SD GA, Aug. 15, 2018), a Georgia federal magistrate judge ...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Many Claims of Non-Liturgical Navy Chaplains Are Dismissed; Several Claims Survive

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In In re Navy Chaplaincy ,  (D DC, March 16, 2016), a challenge to Navy procedures for selection and promotion of chaplains that has wound i...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Navy May Remove Christian Chaplain For Inapproriate Counseling On Sexuality

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Military Times reported Wednesday on the Navy's threat to remove Pentecostal chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Modder from the service because ...
Friday, November 07, 2014

Humanist Sues Navy Over Rejection of His Chaplaincy Application

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Stars and Stripes reported yesterday that a lawsuit has been filed in federal district court for the Northern District of Virginia by a rel...